Students from Parsons The New School for Design, Milano The New School
for Management and Urban Policy, and Stevens Institute of Technology
have teamed up to compete in the Solar Decathlon, a biennial competition
hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy that challenges college teams
to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses to be exhibited on
the National Mall.

Taking the competition beyond the mall and
into the community, the team will partner with Habitat for Humanity to
create affordable housing in the northeastern DC neighborhood of
Deanwood, where the solar-powered house will live following the
competition.

In September 2010, the team hosted a "site-warming" event at the Deanwood site to introduce the project to the community.

Parsons
The New School for Design, Milano The New School for Management and
Urban Policy, and Stevens Institute of Technology set out to build
solar-powered home for residents in partnership with Habitat for
Humanity and District of Columbia.